Artists Oil Paint History

For oil painters: Increase the fluidity of your paint by mixing the colour with glaze medium (a mix of linseed oil, dammar varnish and solvent), and apply with a fine round or rigger brush for flowing, even, unbroken lines.

No matter what painting technique is employed, oil paints are most cooperative when applied from dark to light, wet-into-wet.

Imagine pouring oil onto a completely dry, stiff sponge. It would likely drip right off and not be absorbed much at all. Then imagine the same oil poured onto a wet sponge. It’s much more likely to absorb the oil, because it has been prepped and softened.

Canola oil Safflower oil Corn oil Sunflower oil Soybean oil Rapeseed oil Vegetable oil Grapeseed oil Peanut oil Rice bran oil The food industry’s search for cheap oil that it could market to the American people resulted in a veritable rogue’s gallery of deplorables. Sure, we eventually found out that trans fats were worse for our health than real b

Since artist varnish is meant to be removed in the future when it is dirty and a new coat applied, it is helpful to write in permanent marker on the back edge, which varnish you used. The person cleaning the painting in the future will thank you.